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I recently was given a small USB flash drive as an advertising gimmick. When I plug it in, only one drive appears: a CD drive with 42kb used (just an autorun.inf file which launches the manufacturer's website). I know U3 drives also appear as CD drives...
Started by mmyers on
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The device identifies as a composite device containing two children - one for the CD drive and one, if I wanted to do the same thing for myself, how would I make it appear as a CD drive?
Basically same it as a USB device ....
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Hi,
I'm on a Intel Mac (desktop) which has a broken CD drive. Is there any way to install without buying an external CD drive?
Started by lfaraone on
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by 5 people.
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Choose to saveIf you have access....
A working CD drive, you could use the other computer to clone the Leopard CD onto the external drive Click on the CD drive icon in DiskUtility.app Click the [+New Image] icon.
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I'm trying to install Fedora on a really old (1999-2000) PC, even though I have set it to boot the CD/DVD drive first it wont boot from the CD, I know the CD 'im using is bootable, do you think that the CD might be too new or something?
Thanks!
Started by Bubby4j on
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I see this as a VERY common problem....
CD Booting was still relatively new, and generally reliedIf the machine is from 1999-2000, I would say the most likely cause is that the optical drive is broken.
Only from a floppy or hard drive.
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How can I restrict my .net based windows application to run only when the original CD is present in CD drive. Also the user shouldn't be allowed to create copy of CD.
Started by Ramesh Soni on
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Be running in a virtual machine with a virtual CD drive and people could configure those drive is just a matter of keeping some files on the CD that the application needs to run, so you'll to such equipment, I don't think ....
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I have just installed Ubuntu on my mom's three year old HP system. I am having an issue with the cd drive. I have two: CD and DVDR/CDR.
Only one drive is showing on the computer When I put a CD into the drive, it spins and acts like it's doing something...
Started by HollerTrain on
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Since the DVDR/CDR drive has a superset of features, you might be able to just ....
I've had drives fail in a couple of ways.
At the boot menu Add this to the end of the line pci=noacpi
boot up The CD Drive is probably toast.
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How can I find out the drive letters of available CD/DVD drives?
I am using Python 2.5.4 on Windows.
Thanks in advance.
Started by John on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
We check the drive letter and media state, since that's all we care about rightWith....
If you use about the CD Drives.
This will give you the drive letters even if there is no CD/DVD in the drive.
From this post.
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Problem: Asus EE (no CD drive) in disuse with forgotten password and personal information
Question: How can I remove the content for sure?
Started by Heo on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
I always keep a flash....
Use the "Linux System Rescue CD" and type/run: DBAN (secure deletion) to erase/destroy data_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick
Boot off a USB flash drive with Ubuntu, run gparted to wipe the main drive.
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Hey guys how can i open cd drive in assembly(masm 6.1)? platform is 32bit and os is windows thanx
Started by RealBoy_Ba on
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If what you want is the x86.
Here's one.
Try a web search for open-source CD burning software.
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My baby brother keeps messing around with the CD drive. I tried the software from http://superuser.com/questions/8770/disable-cd-eject-button-on-laptop but it didn't work on Windows 7. I'm using a desktop computer with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
Started by Steven on
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If you have small children, children like to open....
I just tried CD/DVD Drive Locker and it worked on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.
A CD/DVD drive from a drop-down list, lock or unlock it, and open or close the drive.
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Whenever I use my Windows XP SP2 installation CD that came with my Dell computer to use the recovery console, I have a problem.
I understand that it's a bad idea to remove the CD while the recovery console is in use, because recovery console needs access...
Started by eleven81 on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
You can report it to Dell, but I'd.
Doing a full power cycle will reset that bit of the drive.
It is likely a bug in the software on the Dell CD, wherein it never releases the lock from the drive.
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